refinancing

verb

present participle of refinance
as in financing

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for refinancing
  1. financing
  2. underwriting
  3. funding
  4. aiding
  5. advocating
  6. sponsoring
  7. endorsing
  8. backing
Verb
  • The roughly 1 percentage point increase in the rate since then translates roughly into an additional $276-a-month cost for a borrower financing a $400,000 home loan at the current average rate.
    — Michelle Chapman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Carbios works toward a construction restart Carbios is moving closer to financing its Longlaville recycling plant in France, though a restart of construction still hinges on finalizing the funding package.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of financing
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  • The environment creates the opportunity; underwriting determines who captures it.
    — Wesley Carpenter, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • In 1975, banks stopped underwriting the city’s daunting debt, which caused a fiscal crisis.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of underwriting
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  • LondonReuters — Britain’s MI5 spy agency issued an unprecedented alert on ​Wednesday to warn that a Chinese organization was involved in funding academic research into topics such as AI on behalf ‌of Beijing’s state security service.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Since launching the Pink Pony Campaign in 2000, Ralph Lauren has championed the fight against cancer by funding cancer centers and world-class research facilities around the world.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of funding
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  • The facility — slated to be 110,000,000 square feet — will be where Tesla, SpaceX and xAI, which SpaceX acquired ahead of the IPO, manufacture chips for computing, aiding both SpaceX and Tesla.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026
  • For the latter, this is vital to enable the safe passage of ships through shipping lanes, into and out of ports, all the while preventing collisions and aiding activities like search and rescue.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of aiding
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  • Lauren Oto Lauren Oto is advocating for Sacramento’s small businesses while working to broaden diversity in leadership.
    — The Sacramento Bee staff, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Part of this has come about as a result of retail brokerages advocating for their customers to get first dibs on IPO stocks, rather than having to buy the shares at a premium from the connected clients of big banks.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of advocating
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  • Mercedes-Benz has been sponsoring the Masters for almost 20 years; the 140-year-old automaker came on as an inaugural sponsor of ANWA seven years ago.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2026
Definition of sponsoring
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  • The group is not specifically endorsing or looking to knock down any specific bills in Congress yet, Handa said.
    — Ashley Gold, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • In September, videos on X purported to show Leonardo DiCaprio and a bunch of other actors endorsing a campaign urging Americans not to vote for Democrats in November.
    — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of endorsing
Verb
  • That unease is eroding faith in political leaders and fueling calls for upheaval across the spectrum, from young conservatives to students backing progressive challengers in Michigan.
    — Jacqueline Ganun, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Any hope of creating a broad labor coalition backing Proposition 40 ended.
    — Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of backing
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